| | Custody Webinar Recordings
The Battered Women's Justice Project will be posting links to selected webinar trainings. They will be organized by topic and date. These links will take you away from the BWJP website to iLinc's website where you will be asked to sign in to access the recording. Required fields are indicated by an asterisk (*).
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Helping Survivors with Interstate Custody and Relocation Cases March 8, 2012 Content: Survivors face difficult legal and non-legal questions when they consider whether to relocate with their children. This scenario-based webinar will provide a basic understanding of the relevant civil and criminal laws and how they apply in particular circumstances. As a result of the webinar, you will be in a better position to ask the right questions, avoid potentially harmful mistakes, and take appropriate steps to assist survivors when they cross jurisdictional lines with their children to escape abuse. Presenters: Deborah Goelman and Darren Mitchell, Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women.
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National Custody Demonstration Project Update: Introducing a New Framework for Family Court Practitioners
February 2, 2012
To address the many issues battered mothers face in the custody arena, BWJP will continue our series of webinars intended to examine a wide variety of topics that relate to custody litigation. Intended audience include advocates, attorneys, and other practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge of the legal landscape facing custody challenged battered mothers.
Content: Gabrielle Davis, J.D., will provide an update on BWJP’s National Custody Demonstration Project and share a newly developed framework to help family court practitioners account for domestic violence in contested child custody cases. The framework emphasizes the importance of identifying domestic violence in family court cases, understanding the characteristics and features of the violence, determining the implications of domestic violence in various family court settings, and accounting for domestic violence in all family court decision-making.
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Sexual Coercion in the Context of Custody Litigation
Session 11 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
December 1, 2011
Speakers: Connie J. A. Beck, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and serves as a core member of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Arizona and Gabrielle Davis, is an Attorney Advisor for the Battered Women’s Justice Project.
Hosted by: Barbara Hart, J.D. and Kari Sonmore.
Content: Scant research has been devoted to how pre- and post- separation sexual coercion functions in the lives of abused women generally and, more particularly, what implications it has for child custody litigation. This webinar considers sexual coercion in context, discusses evidence-based methods of identifying sexual coercion, and connects the research to family court practice and advocacy.
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Developing and Implementing a Practice Guide on Domestic Violence for Parenting Evaluators: One Community's ExperienceSession 10 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
November 17, 2011Content: Parenting evaluations are frequently offered in contested custody cases, and many professionals who conduct them do not have expertise or training in domestic violence. Survivors, advocates, and attorneys are often frustrated with the parenting evaluation process and results. Presenters will discuss their experience developing a practice guide on domestic violence for parenting evaluators, and what they were and weren’t able to accomplish in promoting a domestic violence protocol for evaluations in their community. Participants will become familiar with the contents of the practice guide and gain insight into how they might be able to use it to improve practice in their own communities.Speakers: Merril Cousin, MEd , Executive Director of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Rachael DelVillar, BSW,JD Program Manager for King County Superior Court Family Court Services and Anne Ganley, PhD psychologist in private practice and a Clinical Associate Professor in psychology at the University of Washington.
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Applying the Safe and Together Model to Custody and Visitation
Session 9 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP October 20, 2011
Content: The Safe and Together model is being implemented in a number of states and jurisdictions (Connecticut, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Kansas City, MO) to improve case practice and cross system collaboration in child welfare cases involving domestic violence. Challenging the double standards that often punish battered mothers and provide advantages to fathers who batterer, the model emphasizes the importance of a clear assessment of the behaviors batterers engage in to harm children and the day to day efforts battered mothers use to promote the safety and well being of their children. In this webinar, David Mandel and Bridget Reilly, provide an overview of the Safe and Together model and its implications for custody and visitation cases.
Faculty: David Mandel, MA, Founder and Managing Member of David Mandel & Associate, LLC and Bridget Reilly, MA, Special Projects Director of David Mandel & Associate, LLC
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Supporting Battered Mothers Involved in Custody DisputesSession 8 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
September 8, 2011Content: Battered mothers need help and support now. Specialized support groups for custody challenged battered mothers are one way to provide that support. Shannon Schmidt has been leading such a group for about ten years. Shannon will share her experience leading this group, which she says has taught her a great deal about Family Court, and discuss the challenges and benefits to both facilitators and group members.
Faculty: Dr. Shannon Schmidt is a licensed psychologist and has worked in the area of family violence for over 20 years. She has facilitated countless numbers of groups with both women and children who have been impacted by domestic violence. Currently she is the Clinical Director of Mental Health at the Neighborhood Involvement Program and the facilitator of “MOM’S GROUP: Co-Parenting After the Relationship Ends”.
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Invisible Forces Guiding Decision-Making in Family Court
Session 7 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
August 18, 2011
Content: Even when domestic violence is recognized and documented, resulting judicial decisions fail to adequately account for violence and control that still exist and impact the safety and well-being of mothers and children. Why is this? Presenters will discuss the largely invisible but dominating themes that govern decision making in Family Court.
Faculty: Stephanie Avalon and Gabrielle Davis, BWJP and Denise Eng, Praxis International.
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Developing Protocols to Ensure Multiple Opportunities for Safe Disclosures of Domestic Violence
Session 6 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
July 14, 2011
Content: Anne Menard will share lessons learned from assisting a range of program developing protocols to address domestic violence, included federally-funded programs who thought the populations they were serving would not include individuals or couples dealing with violence and abuse. Anne will explore the varied reasons that victims/survivors may be reluctant to disclose domestic violence in different settings, how to create more opportunities for victims to safely share information about abuse, and what we have learned about screening and assessment in different settings.
Faculty: Anne Menard, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Anne Menard is an activist who has worked on policy, practice and research ssues affecting domestic violence and sexual assault survivors since the mid-70s. After serving as a senior consultant to the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program of the US Department of Health and Human Services during 2005, she returned as Director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), a position she previously held from 1994-99. At the NRCDV, she directs technical assistance, training, resource development and special projects to support domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts in the U.S. Prior to this national level work, Ms. Menard led the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence for over six years, and, in the early 1980s, co-directed Connecticut’s largest domestic violence shelter and was actively involved in grassroots sexual assault advocacy.
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Safety Issues Advocates Need to Explore with Battered Mothers Using Supervised Visitation Centers
Session 5 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series - Presented by BWJP
June 16, 2011
Content: Jennifer Rose continues her exploration of issues arising in the context of visitation exchanges in this second of her webinars. In this webinar she will focus on the history of safe exchange and visitation programs and how advocates can best support women using these services.
Faculty: Jennifer Rose is the co-founder of Inspire Action for Social Change and is currently working as a consultant, locally and nationally, to provide training and technical assistance on the issues of violence against women and girls, supervised visitation and safe exchange, engaging men who batter, oppression, community organizing, and LGBTQ issues.
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Safety Planning with Battered Mothers Exchanging Children: the Role of the Advocate
Session 4 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series
May 19, 2011
Content: In the first of a two-part webinar that will address the challenges of parenting with former partners, Jennifer will address the role of the advocate in working with battered mothers who share parenting time with abusive partners.
Faculty: Jennifer Rose is the co-founder of Inspire Action for Social Change and is currently working as a consultant, locally and nationally, to provide training and technical assistance on the issues of violence against women and girls, supervised visitation and safe exchange, engaging men who batter, oppression, community organizing, and LGBTQ issues.
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Addressing Fathering After Violence: The Role of Batterer Intervention Programs
Session 3 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series
April 21, 2011
Content: Melissa Scaia and Scott Miller will describe the rationale for and the development of the Fathering after Violence Program, a new supplement to Duluth's Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter curriculum. They will explain why parenting classes often fail to improve the parenting of men who batter. They will also describe how the greater empathy that men have for their children can improve men's motivation to stop their violent and controlling behaviors.
Faculty: Melissa Scaia, Executive Director of Advocates for Family Peace, Grand Rapids, MN and Scott Miller, Men’s Program Coordinator and DAIP Team Leader, Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, Duluth, MN. Hosted by Stephanie Avalon, BWJP.
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The Ohio Demonstration Custody Audit Report
Session 2 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series
March 17, 2011
Content: A rural community in Ohio has just completed an extensive Audit of its child custody practices in cases involving domestic violence with the help of a national team, including the Battered Women's Justice Project, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, The Association of Family & Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and Praxis International. Denise Eng and Pam Weaner will share what the community learned from this national demonstration Audit, how it changed their approach to child custody cases involving domestic violence, and explore its implications around the country.
Faculty: Denise Eng, Praxis International, and Pam Weaner, Audit Coordinator and Director of Legal Aid of Western Ohio. Hosted by Stephanie Avalon, BWJP
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Preparing Battered Mothers for Custody Court
Session 1 in the Custody Challenged Battered Mothers Monthly Webinar Series
February 17, 2011
Content: Liz Richards from the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women will launch BWJP’s monthly webinar series on custody related issues with an overview of the problems in the Family Court system and some practical strategies for advocates to assist battered mothers facing custody litigation, evaluations, mediation, and GAL appointments.
Faculty: Liz Richards, the Director of Programming for the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, hosted by Gabrielle Davis, BWJP.
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